Eliza Mary Edith and Alexander De CourcyPotterton appeared on the 1901 census at 9 Merrion Road, Dublin. Alexander De Courcy Potterton was aged 82, an annuitant, married, and was born in County Meath. His wife Eliza Mary Edith Potterton was aged 32, married, and born in Dublin. Also living with them was a domestic servant.1

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[S748] Find a Grave website, including some cemetery and tombstone photos obtained from site, online at www.findagrave.com, Alexander De Courcy Potterton, Memorial# 153637869. Hereinafter cited as Find a Grave website.

[S1541] Homan Potterton, Potterton People and Places: Three Centuries of an Irish Family. This book is well researched and sourced throughout as it tells the story of the Potterton family who came to Ireland in the late 17th Century. They settled as tenant farmers in County Meath, and have remained there ever since, farming the same lands. (County Louth, Ireland: Choice Publishing, 2006), found in excerpts from the book on www.amazon.com. Hereinafter cited as Potterton People and Places.

A memorial of an indented articles of marriage dated 25 September 1777 was made between GeorgeNicolls the elder of Losset, County Cavan Esq., GeorgeNicolls the younger of Rabrackan, County Cavan, eldest son and heir apparent of George Nicolls the elder and FrancesNicolls otherwise Booth, wife of George Nicolls the younger of the first part, AndrewBell of Bellsgrove in the county of Cavan Esq. and RobertBooth of Drumcarban in the county of Cavan gentleman of the second part, and ThomasHinds of Bruce Hall, County Cavan Esq. and RalphClarke of Drumheel, County Cavan gentleman of the third part. Setting forth that a marriage had been had solemnized between George Nicolls the younger and Frances Nichols otherwise Booth his wife, and also that Frances was entitled to £200 bequeathed her in and by the last will and testament of her brother RichardBooth late of Drumcarban, County Cavan, gentleman deceased chargeable upon all the real and personal estate and fortune whereof the said Richard Booth died seized or possessed of, together with the lawful interest of the legacy until paid off and discharged. And also setting forth that Frances Nicholls was entitled to a jointure of £20 a year chargeable on the lands of Ardleny, in the county of Cavan, the estate of RobertBell her late husband, and a sum of £100, and that an arrears of jointure was now due to Frances Nicolls and is in the hands of her late husband's brother AndrewBell. And setting forth that her nephew RobertBooth had agree to pay and secure the sum of £100 to George Nicolls the younger as an addition to the proportion of Frances, his wife, making, in the whole, the sum of £400. And also setting forth that in consideration of the marriage it was agreed by and between all the parties that the sum of £400 should, in one month after the perfection of the deed, be paid into the hands of George Nicolls the younger by Andrew Bell and Robert Booth to be disposed of at his discretion and in such manner as he should think proper, and George Nicolls the elder and George Nicolls the younger in consideration of the sum of £400 paid or secured to be paid to the younger George Nicolls and of his wife's jointure of £20 a year and in order to secure a provision and maintenance for his wife Frances Nicolls and the male and female issue of their marriage he, the elder George Nicolls, did grant, bargain, sell, alien, promise, release and confirm the several towns and lands of Upper and Lower Aughaknock and Losset and Coolbane situate, lying and being in the county of Cavan and also the lands of Gubduff situate, lying and being in the county of Monaghan to ThomasHinds and RalphClarke, parties to the deed, in trust, to pay unto Frances Nicolls the sum of £100 sterling in case she survives her husband George Nicolls to be issuing and payable out of the towns and lands of Upper and Lower Aughaknock and Losset and Coolbane and Gubduff situate in the counties of Cavan and Monaghan, to be paid to Thomas Hinds and Ralph Clarke, and the survivor of them, and the heirs and administrators of such survivor by equal payments every first of May and first of November every year during the life of George Nicolls the elder, and from and immediately after the death of George Nicolls the elder, to Thomas Hinds and Ralph Clarke in trust to permit George Nicolls the younger and his assigns, from and after the death of George Nicolls the elder, for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste, to hold the said lands and premises and after the determination of that estate in further trust to Thomas Hinds and Ralph Clarke to permit Frances to receive the sum of £50 a year to be issuing and payable out of the said lands and premises for and during the term of her natural life in lieu and bar and satisfaction of her dower and rights at common law which she can claim out of any of the said lands, tenements or hereditaments of her husband, George Nicolls. And in further trust that after the decease of the second George Nicolls and Frances, his wife, then to the use of the lawful issue of George Nicolls and Frances, his wife. The memorial deed was witnessed and recorded on 19 November 1782.2

A memorial of an indented articles of marriage dated 25 September 1777 was made between GeorgeNicolls the elder of Losset, County Cavan Esq., GeorgeNicolls the younger of Rabrackan, County Cavan, eldest son and heir apparent of George Nicolls the elder and FrancesNicolls otherwise Booth, wife of George Nicolls the younger of the first part, AndrewBell of Bellsgrove in the county of Cavan Esq. and RobertBooth of Drumcarban in the county of Cavan gentleman of the second part, and ThomasHinds of Bruce Hall, County Cavan Esq. and RalphClarke of Drumheel, County Cavan gentleman of the third part. Setting forth that a marriage had been had solemnized between George Nicolls the younger and Frances Nichols otherwise Booth his wife, and also that Frances was entitled to £200 bequeathed her in and by the last will and testament of her brother RichardBooth late of Drumcarban, County Cavan, gentleman deceased chargeable upon all the real and personal estate and fortune whereof the said Richard Booth died seized or possessed of, together with the lawful interest of the legacy until paid off and discharged. And also setting forth that Frances Nicholls was entitled to a jointure of £20 a year chargeable on the lands of Ardleny, in the county of Cavan, the estate of RobertBell her late husband, and a sum of £100, and that an arrears of jointure was now due to Frances Nicolls and is in the hands of her late husband's brother AndrewBell. And setting forth that her nephew RobertBooth had agree to pay and secure the sum of £100 to George Nicolls the younger as an addition to the proportion of Frances, his wife, making, in the whole, the sum of £400. And also setting forth that in consideration of the marriage it was agreed by and between all the parties that the sum of £400 should, in one month after the perfection of the deed, be paid into the hands of George Nicolls the younger by Andrew Bell and Robert Booth to be disposed of at his discretion and in such manner as he should think proper, and George Nicolls the elder and George Nicolls the younger in consideration of the sum of £400 paid or secured to be paid to the younger George Nicolls and of his wife's jointure of £20 a year and in order to secure a provision and maintenance for his wife Frances Nicolls and the male and female issue of their marriage he, the elder George Nicolls, did grant, bargain, sell, alien, promise, release and confirm the several towns and lands of Upper and Lower Aughaknock and Losset and Coolbane situate, lying and being in the county of Cavan and also the lands of Gubduff situate, lying and being in the county of Monaghan to ThomasHinds and RalphClarke, parties to the deed, in trust, to pay unto Frances Nicolls the sum of £100 sterling in case she survives her husband George Nicolls to be issuing and payable out of the towns and lands of Upper and Lower Aughaknock and Losset and Coolbane and Gubduff situate in the counties of Cavan and Monaghan, to be paid to Thomas Hinds and Ralph Clarke, and the survivor of them, and the heirs and administrators of such survivor by equal payments every first of May and first of November every year during the life of George Nicolls the elder, and from and immediately after the death of George Nicolls the elder, to Thomas Hinds and Ralph Clarke in trust to permit George Nicolls the younger and his assigns, from and after the death of George Nicolls the elder, for and during the term of his natural life without impeachment of or for any manner of waste, to hold the said lands and premises and after the determination of that estate in further trust to Thomas Hinds and Ralph Clarke to permit Frances to receive the sum of £50 a year to be issuing and payable out of the said lands and premises for and during the term of her natural life in lieu and bar and satisfaction of her dower and rights at common law which she can claim out of any of the said lands, tenements or hereditaments of her husband, George Nicolls. And in further trust that after the decease of the second George Nicolls and Frances, his wife, then to the use of the lawful issue of George Nicolls and Frances, his wife. The memorial deed was witnessed and recorded on 19 November 1782.1

Samuel was ordained a pastor on 11 May 1711 in that part of Braintree, Suffolk County, which became Quincy and baptized about twelve hundred and received into his church three hundred and twelve people.2

(Husband) Death

10 February 1715/16

Samuel became a widower when Elizabeth (Thacher)Niles died on 10 February 1715/16.2,4

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[S474] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, including an extensive Family Register. Note: page numbers differ slightly between publications used in our research, including FHL copy, Google Books, Boston Public Library EBooks online and our personal library reprint published by Heritage Books. (Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, Inc., original publication date was 1840; reprinted for the third and fourth times in 1970 and 1975; first reprinted in 1897 by Henry T. Pratt, Bridgewater, Massachusetts; originally printed in 1840 by Kidder and Wright, Boston, Massachusetts), Leach, pages 239-244. Hereinafter cited as History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater.

[S445] A faithful and exact copy of the original records without any abridgment or variation and copied by various members of the NEHGS from the original records, "Early Records of Boston, Massachusetts", New England Historical & Genealogical Register Volumes 2 - 12 (published as a continuation from January 1848 through 1858): Volume 12, Oct 1858, page 350, her surname spelled "Noaks". Hereinafter cited as "Boston Records - NEHGR."

[S474] Nahum Mitchell, History of the Early Settlement of Bridgewater, Leach, pages 239-244, her surname spelled "Nokes."

[S1265] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England", New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume 67, pages 21-28 (January 1915): stating the name of John Rowling's first wife was not known. Hereinafter cited as "Genealogical Research in England (Rowning Pedigree)."

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[S397] George F. Willison, Saints and Strangers: being the lives of the Pilgrim Fathers and their families, with their friends and foes; and an account of their posthumous wanderings in limbo, their final resurrection and rise to glory, and the strange pilgrimages of Plymouth Rock (New York, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945). Hereinafter cited as Saints and Strangers.

[S296] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May, 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register, volumes 1-4 (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862). Hereinafter cited as Genealogical Dictionary of First Settlers.

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[S9] Compiled by Mary Lou Heaton Skinner Ross, transcribed from the original Conger Volumes published by Helen Maxine Cromwell in 1973, "Notes Taken From: The Conger Family of America", compiled on 10 Aug 1982 (Issaquah, Washington 98029). Hereinafter cited as "Conger Family Outline."

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[S1510] Henry Hart Beeson, A Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family, downloaded from the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org. Edward Beeson immigrated to America in 1682 or 1684 from Stoke, Lancaster, England and settled in New Castle, Delaware. He married Rachel Pennington and they had four children. He married Elizabeth and they had two children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Alabama and Texas. Includes index. (Houston, Texas: H.H. Beeson, 1968), page 17. Hereinafter cited as Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family.

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[S1510] Henry Hart Beeson, A Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family, downloaded from the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org. Edward Beeson immigrated to America in 1682 or 1684 from Stoke, Lancaster, England and settled in New Castle, Delaware. He married Rachel Pennington and they had four children. He married Elizabeth and they had two children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Alabama and Texas. Includes index. (Houston, Texas: H.H. Beeson, 1968), page 17. Hereinafter cited as Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family.

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[S1510] Henry Hart Beeson, A Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family, downloaded from the Family History Library at www.familysearch.org. Edward Beeson immigrated to America in 1682 or 1684 from Stoke, Lancaster, England and settled in New Castle, Delaware. He married Rachel Pennington and they had four children. He married Elizabeth and they had two children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Alabama and Texas. Includes index. (Houston, Texas: H.H. Beeson, 1968), pages 32-34. Hereinafter cited as Genealogy of the Beeson - Beason Family.

There was no known marriage between MaryNott and EdwardFowke, although they had three children together between 1818 and 1827.1

Citations

[S765] The Bell Family at Links - Genealogy, online at http://genealogy.links.org. Compiled by Camilla von Massenbach at e-mail address. Even though the database is a beta version and sourcing is incomplete, hard to find or absent, it provided some confirming information and new clues about the Bell family. Hereinafter cited as Bell Family at Links - Genealogy.

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[S1190] Frederick Clifton Pierce, Field Genealogy: being the record of all the Field family in America, whose ancestors were in this country prior to 1700, Volume 1, downloaded from the Boston Public Library EBooks and Texts Archive at www.archive.org. (Chicago, Illinois: Hammond Press, W.B. Conkey Company, 1901), pages 172-173. Hereinafter cited as Field Genealogy, Volume 1.

She died on 11 September 1824 at Bundoran, County Donegal, Ireland. The Enniskillen Chronicle of 16 Sep reported having great regret in mentioning the sudden death of Mrs. Bell, wife of George Bell, of Bellview, near Enniskillen. Mrs. Bell had been at Bundoran for some time past with her family enjoying the benefit of sea bathing, and sat down to tea there on Saturday evening in perfect health, when she suddenly fell from her chair and expired. This unexpected calamity has plunged her afflicted family in deepest distress, and excited the sympathy of a respectable circle of friends and acquaintances. Her remains were met on Monday last by a large portion of the inhabitants of this town, and conveyed for interment to the family burying place at Rossorry.2

[S766] Séamas MacAnnaidh, "Old Rossorry Graveyard, Enniskillen", This work is a combination of the reading and transcribing of gravestones, newspaper notices and microfilm. The gravestones were in the Old Rossorry Graveyard in Enniskillen and his graveyard project was unfinished at the time of his writing. Most of the newspaper notices were found in the Enniskillen Chronicle and Erne Packet, although some were also from the Enniskillen Impartial Reporter. Those he included were described simply as "relevant" to the families or individuals mentioned on the gravestones. The microfilm he used was (MIC 1/22) Church of Ireland burial register found at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Old Rossorry Graveyard, Enniskillen (County Fermanagh, Ireland), online at http://www.igp-web.com/IGPArchives/ire/fermanagh/cemeteries/…, downloaded on downloaded 4 Sep 2010. Hereinafter cited as Old Rossorry Graveyard, Enniskillen.

[S765] The Bell Family at Links - Genealogy, online at http://genealogy.links.org. Compiled by Camilla von Massenbach at e-mail address. Even though the database is a beta version and sourcing is incomplete, hard to find or absent, it provided some confirming information and new clues about the Bell family. Hereinafter cited as Bell Family at Links - Genealogy.

[S892] Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, (21 is missing), and 22, online at www.ancestry.com. Hereinafter cited as Dictionary of National Biography, Volumes 1-20, 22.